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The Effect of Arab Stereotypes on ... Actors | StepFeed — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 08:05:56 +0000

[...] on … Actors Alexandra Talty Article Author More posts by authorFrom our friends at Ink on Side … here is the problem with Arab stereotypes, for actors. Because that is why Orientalism is [...]

By: Noel

Noel — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 13:48:21 +0000

Arabs aren’t the only stereotypes. I’m from Texas and I’ve had people come up to me and ask me where the bars, Cowboys, and all of the guns are, so I feel your pain. After a while you just want to shoot the idiots, you’d think people could at least learn about different cultures and be open to new ideas. I know these comics are for Lebanese life but we all feel it. ☺️

By: Joshua carper

Joshua carper — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:22:06 +0000

being from the United States i get a little sick of the fat stupid gun toting JEEEEEEEEEESUS freak trope

By: Michael Corley

Michael Corley — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 12:30:04 +0000

Sad, but true.

By: sareen

sareen — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 07:42:11 +0000

I would give anything to hear some of the witty one liners that the Arab protagonist would come up with!

By: sareen

sareen — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 07:41:08 +0000

Oh man, every time I see a British actor in an American movie, I immediately know he’s the bad guy. Typical!

By: ArendJK

ArendJK — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 04:29:02 +0000

Its not so much in movies, but something I’m sick of seeing on TV are the ‘feed the children’ infomercials that always go to an African Village somewhere, show shots of normal Tribes-people going about their day, and then stick some random actor in front of the camera to talk about how horrible life in that village is.

As someone who was originally from Africa, just once I wish groups like that would choose a different continent to exploit for their infomercials

By: Aline

Aline — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 18:25:01 +0000

I’m not French but live in Paris and my French friends are always commenting how the French characters in American movies are usually villains, traitors or just generally unsympathetic. Their physical appearance almost always consists of a three-day beard and a cigarette hanging from their lips.

By: RBZ

RBZ — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:15:52 +0000

There’s not so much of it now, but British actors were almost always cast as the villains in Hollywood movies. Any Brit actor not playing a villain would invariably end up dead, or was the ‘stoopid sidekick’ to the ‘great American hero’.

By: hagueharry

hagueharry — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:43:36 +0000

This isn’t nearly as bad as the portrayal of arabs but it always annoys me a bit how the Dutch language and Dutch accents are almost always portrayed as German language/accents instead in American movies. In the worst case they even just take german culture and stereotypes and act like it’s dutch. They actually do the same thing to Belgium, but with French instead.

By: sareen

sareen — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:03:00 +0000

Wow, you nailed it with the Malaysian Chinese stereotypes! That’s all we see of them in movies!

By: sareen

sareen — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:02:15 +0000

I think those three Bs sum up our stereotypes nicely!

By: sareen

sareen — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:01:24 +0000

Oooh actually I hadn’t seen this documentary before, but someone JUST posted this documentary on my Ink On The Side facebook page and added the documentary. I’ll definitely be checking it. Thanks for sharing!

By: Ogie

Ogie — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:51:09 +0000

This reminds me of the movie Crash, where Terrance Howard’s character is told he needs to be and act more black, as well as Jack Shaheen’s “Reel Bad Arab’s (http://tinyurl.com/kax63uh). Have you heard of it Sareen?

By: Mel

Mel — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:52:38 +0000

While writing my masters thesis I came across a book about perceptions of Arabs in the West. And the author presented his 3Bs framework for Arabs in movies: Bombers, Belly dancers and Billionaire Sheikhs.

By: Krieger

Krieger — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 07:46:37 +0000

Overused Arab stereotypes… Let me see, there’s the taxi driver who is a fountain of wisdom, being moral guardians/crusaders and unable to reason like everyone else.

As to Malaysian Chinese stereotypes, there is the stereotype that we are all gamblers, overcompetitive and extremely miserly. Or involved in organized crime.